On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 22:54 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 10:48 PM Denis Cheremisov < > denis.cheremi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, as usual I wrote something in the way, not the real thing. > > > > The case is: > > > > - At my company we are using errgroup from that sync repo in one > > project, > > sync/errgroup in fact mostly. > > - It proved to be error prone with its context shadowing on > > errgroup.WithContext > > so we took the original and adds context in the group itself via > > eg.Ctx() + > > a couple of additional functionality. > > > > Yesterday our attorney wrote us "we can't use sync because of this > > patents > > note" as it works like a virus, and can't use our modification too > > for the same > > reason. It turned out the stdlib is under the same note too, so we > > will have > > fun times :) > > > That makes no sense to me. And I'm not aware of any other company > that sees any problem at all with the patent grant. > > But I am not a lawyer, and you will have to make your own decisions. > > Ian
Maybe they are worried about this, "This grant does not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of this implementation." (that's what it sounds like from the previous response). If they are, I think they are misreading it (though I am not a lawyer). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/2e49ef8893e064727347932cfaa79a71050f419f.camel%40kortschak.io.
